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Exploring educational experiments: pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law
How to innovate education? In this series, the Honours Academy highlights examples from their educational testing ground that aim to inspire. Today: the liberating effect of pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law.
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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…
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Mike Field’s Leiden Experience: ‘I try to make research teaching and teaching research.’
Mike Field has been at the Faculty of Archaeology since 2008. As a driven archaeobotanist, he is consistantly contributing to the study of plant fossils encountered in many faculty as well as external projects. ‘Flexibility, spontaneity, creativity, these are all parts of being an academic.’
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Big data cannot do without statistics
Data science and statistics are closely linked, says Spinoza laureate and Stochastics professor Aad van der Vaart. We talk with him about the big data hype, genome research and collaboration with other disciplines. ‘Statistics helps wherever data is not perfect.’
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‘A logical step from medieval literature to fact-checking’
Alumnus Peter Burger – along with his colleague Alexander Pleijter – is the face of fact-checking in the Netherlands. ‘My degree led straight to this.’
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‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"
Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has a formidable track record.
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Why the WTO ban on China’s export duties should be ‘greened’
China is prohibited from using export duties to address any environmental problems. This is unfortunate, according to PhD candidate Fengan Jiang (Richard), as export duties could be useful in tackling global carbon leakage. PhD defence on 19 February 2020.
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Two major teaching grants for Leiden lecturers
Studying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Chemist Ludo Juurlink and Professor of Science Education Fred Janssen from the Leiden Graduate…
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Asma Mehan about PortCityFutures, anthropology, and Leiden
Asma Mehan is one of the researchers involved in this project since June 2020 and works at CADS. What exactly is PCF and why is research in port areas important? An introduction to Asma Mehan and PCF.
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‘Could the slide have coronavirus on it?’
What do I do if Mum or Dad gets the virus? Could the slide at the playground have coronavirus on it? Can children die of the virus too? On 15 April, the National Science Agenda organised an hour-long session on Facebook to give children the chance to ask their questions about coronavirus. Leiden psychologist…
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Caelesta Braun & Bert Fraussen awarded NIG Supervisor of the Year Award
Each year, the Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG) invites PhD students from Public Administration departments at universities in the Netherlands and Flanders to nominate their supervisor(s) for the NIG Supervisor of the Year Award, to celebrate and recognize excellent PhD supervision. This year,…
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Medical Delta professor Andrew Webb: ‘In The Netherlands, people are much more open to cooperation’
Commercial MRI systems cost millions of euros to purchase and require highly trained technicians to operate. Prof. Andrew Webb works on accessible MRI techniques that offer new opportunities in both developed and developing countries. Webb is a professor at the Radiology Department of the LUMC and,…
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90 years of labour law in Leiden: Evolving with the times
Labour law professors have shaped research and education in Leiden since 1936. From the rise of trade unions to the AI revolution, the field has constantly evolved. Major changes are on the horizon again in 2026. 'Labour law will always be important.'
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Why International Women’s Day still matters: insights from three experts
The Netherlands is known globally for being a champion of equality. But is it really? On 8 March, International Women's Day, three Leiden experts reflect on this year's national theme: #NietMijnRecht (#NotMyRight)
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Addressing femicide is a clear human rights obligation
On Thursday 22 January, the Honours College Law New Year's event addressed the urgent issue of femicide. Experience-based expert Anne-Marije van den Bersselaar and assistant professors Mojan Samadi and Ellen Gijselaar explored the topic from personal and legal perspectives.
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Poster sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes several poster sessions, the description of which you can find below.
- Public graduation presentations
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IBL Symposium 2025
Symposium
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Connect & FAIRify: FAIRification of a high throughput metabolomics laboratory with FAIR Digital Objects
Webinar, Q&A, discussion
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Ethnic Bias in Immigration Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Britain
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Managing group work
Didactics
- OSCoffee: Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how
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Van Marum Colloquium: Ticking the CO2 clock with molecular control. From fuels to complex molecules
Lecture
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Reporting Reality: Women’s Rights in India
Debate, Leiden Asia Academy
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Van Marum Colloquium: Molecular Synthesis Enabled by Surfaces
Lecture
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Verticality, Agronomic Turn, and the Making of Colonial Botany in the Dutch East Indies
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Humanities PhD Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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Cracking the 3D Paradata Puzzle
Lecture, Digital Archaeology Group
- Summer School - Schools in Transition: Situated learning, Discipline and Monasticism in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (5 ECTS)
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LUCIP Colloquium "Tough Compassion: Chŏng Yagyong’s Political Theory of Meritocracy"
Lecture
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Not Rifles but Books: FEC’s Book Programs (1954–1991)
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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E-Values for Anytime-Valid Inference with Exponential Families
PhD defence
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Lunch Talk Asia Research Cluster and Futuring Heritage Project
Lecture, Lunch Talk
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Peace or Lawlessness? The Vandalisation of International Law after UN Security Council Resolution 2803
Lecture
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LED3 Lecture: Targeting Post-translational Modification for Drug Discovery
Lecture
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Enhancing visualization of gastrointestinal tumors: molecular targets and tracers for intraoperative optical imaging
PhD defence
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AnyAge.ai Hackathon: Addressing Age Bias and Fairness in AI-Driven Job Recruitment
Hackathon
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Developments in local politics research
Lecture
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Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany
Debate, Book Launch
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Deciphering the Atomic Structure of the Electrified Metal Oxide- Electrolyte Interface
PhD defence
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A New Age of Infrastructure Development? An Historical Comparison of Nested Dependency in Pakistan and Egypt
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Gamification: improve your course with game didactics
Didactics
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Navigating Married Life in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Politicization and democratic control of EU decision-making
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Meiji to 20th Century mokuhanga
Lecture
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Paco Barona Gomez
Lecture
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Mermru: Building a Dynamic and Integrated Linguistic Engine for Ethio-Semitic Languages
Lecture
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Online Student for a Day - MA International Relations
Study information
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L(SB)2 Seminar: Combining experiments with AlphaFold2 to characterize new histones in prokaryotes
Lecture